Boys can now wear skirt to school and girls trousers – Mexico

Mexico City
Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has stated that school “Boys can wear skirts if
they want and girls can wear trousers if they want”

Mayor
Sheinbaum made this known as she revealed that schools will no longer
have gender specific uniforms, adding that the measure would create “a
condition of equality, of equity”.

Previous guidelines stated that
“just as the skirt is the basic garment of a girl’s daily school
uniform, so trousers are for boys”.

Mayor Sheinbaum said that that
kind of thinking “had passed into history” and that the new measure
would come into effect “immediately”.

The new development has been
welcomed by transgenders who believe it will help children who until
now use uniforms they may not have identified with.

This is coming
a months after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would push
for same-sex marriage to be made legal across the country.

A Twitter user reacted to the news:

Amazing!
Props to Mexico-City for this! I think that gender-specific clothing is
stupid in any way, and people should always be able to wear what they
wish. Plus, this will also be of great help for transgender students.
Bravo!

Another shared:

Seems
growth, transformation, modernisation is being perceived as doing things
differently than in meaningful better way! Human kind is trying it’s
best to reach the height of stupidity by trying to be different and in
the name of misunderstood freedom!